screen corruption when switching to TTYs

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 16:34:58 UTC 2009


Konstantin Svist wrote:
> I have a laptop with nvidia card (8600M GT (rev a1)) where I just
> installed F11 x86_64.
> I've added vga=0x369 to /boot/grub/grub.conf (that's 1860x1050, native
> resolution).
> The system boots up without incidents.
>
> While in X, I try to switch to TTYs (Ctrl+Alt+F2, for instance). Instead
> of a tty, I see a corrupted image of the desktop - there are diagonal
> lines and everything is mangled beyond recognition, but the colors kind
> of match the desktop content.
> If I press Ctrl+Alt+F1, it goes back to the desktop without any visual
> glitches.
>
> Before I set the vga kernel param, switching worked perfectly. Of
> course, the resolution was very low, so I don't want to go back to that
> if possible.
>
> Anyone have the same problem? What can I do about it?
>
> Thanks
>   

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